About Me

Monday, December 19, 2011

"Happy Girl with a lot of Secrets" (2012 About Me Journal)

I am embracing my 2012 new year's resolution already and over the weekend began my "About Me" Journal, using prompts that were shared on the "blissfully_art_journaling" yahoo egroup. I am using an altered book, chosen for its construction, not it's content. The content will come from within me.

With this journal I hope to explore all facets of me, the good, the bad, the old, the new and in doing so get to know myself on a deeper level. Time will tell if this journal is something I'll want to share with others (either through my blog or with my family). For now it is something I want to share with myself.

I'm off to a great start, having already created two 2-page spreads. One is disclaimer to anyone who happens to read this journal and the other is a loving reminder to myelf that as I churn up some of the gunk that has settled (or I've compacted) over the years, I need to continue living one day at a time--today.

Close up of the first page "Happy Girl with a lot of Secrets"﻿

Full 2-page spread, including journaling. This is a first for me. I typically only share the artsy parts of my journal or a mixed media art piece that I've created based on the artsy parts of my journal.﻿

This is the second spread in my journal. The image on the right was the inspiration for these two pages. It was many of 100s of advertisement photos/images in a book I found at my favorite thrift store. I wish I would have kept the name of the book so I could see if others exist. I don't recall what the original image was used for, but in this context it really appeals to me...sort of a healing of past hurts and filling in the gaps to make the self whole again.﻿